Taylor Festival Choir’s McGlynn/MacMillan Masses
We are proud to announce the release of the internationally acclaimed Taylor Festival Choir’s 4th commercial CD! The renowned Delos recording label has produced the World Premier Recording of Celtic Mass by Michael McGlynn (best known for his work with his Irish choir Anuna), paired with another setting of the Mass by the man acknowledged as Scotland’s greatest composer, Sir James MacMillan. This disc is already being considered for GRAMMY Awards in 3 categories!
With this album, Taylor Music Group and Delos offers lovely, skillfully rendered and ear-grabbing accounts of two very different and profoundly spiritual treatments of the Catholic Mass by Irish composer Michael McGlynn and the Scottish master Sir James MacMillan.
Both works reflect their creators’ strong Celtic roots. McGlynn’s Celtic Mass intersperses sections in Irish between the traditional Latin elements. Macmillan’s Mass sets the traditional movements in English, and adds other liturgical texts that make the work suitable for use as a stand-alone service.
